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Imagery in the Digital AgeSat, 05 Sep 2015 18:12:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on DISORIENTATION SERIES by bernerhttps://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/disorientation-series/#comment-1467
Sat, 05 Sep 2015 18:12:01 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=5866#comment-1467Guess what. I am in Florida now. Estero Florida to be exact. Love to stay in contact though, sorry I have been so bad about responding to my blog. Hope you and Norm are well. Let’s chat sometime.
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Wed, 02 Sep 2015 20:34:16 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=5866#comment-1466Wow, Chris, just beautiful. You and Norm should get together. Can’t believe I haven’t bumped into you since you moved back.
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Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:06:17 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=2012#comment-403Chris – thanks for posting these images from the CDIA students, it’s nice to see some of their work!
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Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:22:40 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=2012#comment-402Chris, Glad you are settled in! Can’t wait to see what you are working on! Ordered the yearbooks – 5 copies for my mother!
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Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:14:10 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=1755#comment-290Wonderful images here, Chris!
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Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:15:46 +0000http://chrisalvanas.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/screen-shot-2011-12-07-at-3-54-12-pm.png#comment-177I’m not impressed. The thing keeping the audio quality of an iPhone recorder down is not the compression of the audio, it’s the cheap mic on the phone and the crap input/electronics for an external mic.

A good mic costs a few hundred bucks. An iPhone costs a few hundred bucks. The microphone and mic-input electronics might not be an afterthought, but I’d say it’s damn near close. It doesn’t matter if you manage to finagle a cable that hooks up the pro microphone, you’re still going through the dirt cheap afterthought of a mic pre. It’s similar to plugging in a pro mic into a DSLR vs. recording to an external recording and syncing. The external recorder just sounds way cleaner.

Now for DSLRs even if we plug straight in it’s a great improvement because we can now place the mic in a different place (e.g. as close to the person that is talking as possible) that is different than the camera. But with an iPhone you could pretty much talk right into– or get your talent to talk right into– it anyway.

AND a lot of pro mics need phantom power, so a ton of good mics won’t be compatible with this setup.

That’s not to say this wouldn’t be a helpful setup for some situations. It’s just to say that it’s not going to be the quality of a dedicated recorder with nice mic pres and phantom power.

Before shelling out the cash for this middle-of-the-road not-quite-pro solution I’d ask yourself if the “cheap” sound of a simple iPhone recording app was actually insufficient in any way.

]]>Comment on RE-THINKING X? by Kevin Goodhttps://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/re-thinking-x/#comment-102
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:41:02 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=1303#comment-102This corroborates how I have felt about FCP X, which is: It has great great great features, and I’m glad they shook up the mold. Footage keywording, interface improvements, speed improvements (although Adobe beat them to that punch by a mile), more features right in the editor (optical flow retiming, better audio effects, automatic audio sync for multiple clips, etc). But to say they haven’t thrown out a ton of necessary stuff is just fallacy. The color grading is a joke compared to Color– it’s interface over function. The lack of external monitor support is “on the way”? Well that’s not good enough.

I do hope they make it a more competitive marketplace, which is what I think they’re doing. And while they sort themselves out I’ll be happily using Premiere– with it’s ridiculously fast CUDA-accelerated timeline, pro color grading tools like 32-bit real-time ‘curves’, and other goodies like great native Red support and After Effect/Photoshop integration. Maybe FCP will once again be competitive in the future. I don’t think it is today.

I could keep typing about this one for a while, but I’ll leave it at that. 🙂

]]>Comment on IMAGINATION by leadinglighthttps://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/imagination/#comment-48
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:16:37 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=632#comment-48That child must have lovely dreams awash with colour. What an awesome mum!
]]>Comment on BW and ADVANCED PRINTING by Thomas Rottenburyhttps://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/bw-and-advanced-printing/#comment-39
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:05:13 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=383#comment-39You’re right photoshop is hard. Have you found any good guides for learning Curves tools? I read in Learn Photoshop Quickly | Docstoc that it’s like the swiss army knife of the PS toolbar is that true do you know? It seems like a lot of my knowledge is still missing for photo editing
]]>Comment on SPECIAL REQUEST by Diane Antonhttps://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/special-request/#comment-34
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:22:15 +0000http://chrisalvanas.wordpress.com/?p=581#comment-34great info! – love it – the adjustment layers leave you with lots of room for “tweaking”